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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
If I'm lucky enough to choose, and I am at the moment, I'm going to choose what I like. That just sort of makes sense.
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Editing Samurai
Steve Rosenblum takes on Edward Zwick's new epic
One might have a tough time envisioning a path to Hollywood from a Connecticut
department store, but that's exactly where editor Steve Rosenblum's
improbable career began. With 20 years and more than a dozen feature films
under his belt, Rosenblum's latest effort, The Last Samurai, is about
to hit theaters. He recently spoke with MM about his longtime
collaboration with director Edward Zwick and the nature of what he calls
"musical storytelling."
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Some writers only work when they "have time." It's very important to make time in one's schedule-even if it's only for 15 minutes a day.
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InkTip plays equalizer for screenwriters, detective for producers
A Match(maker) Made in Heaven
Jerrol LeBaron founded InkTip (formerly The Writer's Script Network) in 1999 after he wrote what he now refers to as "a crappy screenplay." He soon discovered that getting anybody to see his script took an astounding amount of work. With a background in sales, he was quick to recognize an entrepreneurial opportunity and InkTip was born. In the last year alone, the company has seen nine of its screenplays produced and at least one of its writers ink a six-figure studio deal.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
I storyboard extensively; it helps me to learn my film. Sometimes the boards don't work on the set and that's fine, but it's something to start with-a blueprint that can be deviated from, if necessary.
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A Contest Among Contests
Scriptapalooza founder Mark Andrushko
The transition from producer to entrepreneur is a logical one-particularly when you've heard one too many complaints that there "are no good scripts." For producer-turned-screenwriting-guru Mark Andrushko, that's exactly what prompted him to co-found the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition with Genevieve Cibor in 1998. "[I] realized how thirsty my production company and literary contacts were for great writers and material," he states.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
It's so important when a cameraman and the director can really talk with one another. The more you talk with the director, the more you know what he has in his mind and what he expects from you.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Always have a plan before you jump into a project.
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Born for Hollywood
ASC Lifetime Achievement winner Fred Koenekamp reflects on Patton, Papillon and other highlights of legendary career
Koenekamp earned Academy Award nominations for Islands in the Stream and Patton and shared a 1975 Oscar with Joe Biroc for their collaboration on The Towering Inferno. Other memorable films in his formidable body of work include The Great Bank Robbery, Billy Jack, Kansas City Bomber, The Amityville Horror, Papillion and Fun With Dick and Jane.
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MovieMaker Guide to Film Education
MM's at-a-glance reference guide to film education around the world
From one day to one year, completion certificates to PhDs, London to Los Angeles, whatever your film education desire, the growing crop of film education programs is making experts out of novices every day. But which program is right for you? MM takes a look at a score of film schools and education programs the world over to find out where you might fit in.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
There's no underestimating the power of the detail of real locations, whether you build it or go there. The amount of subtle information that people can absorb, from anything from the quality of light to the detail in the background, has an incredibly powerful impact on performance and on the audience.
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Killer Movie, Killer Moviemaking
Writer-director Patty Jenkins on Monster
Writer-director Patty Jenkins has hit the ground running with her first feature, the widely acclaimed, Monster, a riveting and dark love story detailing serial killer Aileen Wuornos' tragic descent into obsession and murder. Jenkins, who initially studied painting at the Cooper Union in New York City, fell in love with movies while attending an experimental film course between painting classes. After graduation, she went to Los Angeles and soon earned a union card as a first assistant camera operator.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Believe no one. I learned not to believe anyone. It's unfortunate, but all of those "friends" who said they would help me find a distributor or an agent basically lied to me. Maybe they didn't do it intentionally, but they didn't help.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
It's not the means or the money, it's the passion and ideas.
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The Angry Filmmaker’s Rant
Kelley Baker is releasing his third indie feature. But it's the "corporate" independent film that gets him angry.
Kelley Baker is one pissed-off dude. The Portland, Oregon-based moviemaker who has worked with some of the best in the business has just released his third feature film, Kicking Bird , produced for little more than what a major Hollywood picture spends on a week's worth of bagels and Starbucks. He shot it guerilla style--no permits, no permission, no problem--calling in favors like gambling debts.
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Technology in Equal Parts
Filmmakers Alliance's founder on digital's role in his success story
Though he named his moviemaker support group Filmmakers Alliance a decade ago, Jacques Thelemaque would never discredit the role that the digital medium has played in the success of his moviemaking endeavors. Now celebrating his organization's 10-year anniversary, the future for both Thelemaque and his LA-based group seems paved with gold… and tape stock.
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Happy to be in the Heart of Hollywood
At the Los Angeles Film School, it's all about location
Film schools in Southern California sometimes seem almost as plentiful as actor/waiters, and they continue to churn out hundreds of freshly minted moviemakers each year. If you’re serious about getting a film education—and a career—in this land of dreams, you’d better have something unique to offer. For four and a half years now, the Los Angeles Film School has been doing just that—supplying aspiring moviemakers with the aesthetic and technical skills they need to "make it" in Hollywood.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
When you first put an assembly together, you put in everything the director shot. You don't try to give it too much shape yet. Then, you attack it in the second cut. So, it's like a first draft of someone's writing.
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A Cut Above
Editor Thelma Schoonmaker celebrates in Seattle
Just weeks before scoring her second Oscar for Best Editing for The Aviator, editing legend Thelma Schoonmaker made time for a group of film fans--and an MM writer--at Seattle's Scarecrow Video to discuss her craft, collaborations with Scorsese and what it's like to have spent countless hours with the likes of Jake La Motta, Max Cady, Henry Hill and Bill the Butcher.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Nothing is done until it's done. If you're satisfied with something, look at it again.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Study art, watch movies, shoot pictures. Shoot, shoot, shoot.
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Finding 100 Ways
Editing is never boring for veteran Norman Hollyn
hen it comes to the craft of motion picture editing, Norman
Hollyn is one of the masters. In addition to his work in the editing
room (both as a sound and film editor), Hollyn's found an entirely separate career
teaching the dos and don'ts of his job. A current professor of film editing as
USC, Hollyn has also taken to the classrooms of UCLA and the American Film Institute—as
well as penned the book The Film Editing Room Handbook: How To Manage The
Near Chaos of the Cutting Room (the title says it all).
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The Look of Lonesome Jim
Phil Parmet re-teams with Steve Buscemi for new character drama
Sure, a cinematographer may tell you that he or she can shoot "any style," but Phil Parmet doesn't believe it for a second. The 30-year veteran, who got his start working on docs like Harlan County, U.S.A. and The Song Remains the Same , says that as much as one may initially attempt to diversify, most professionals inevitably wind up working with like-minded individuals.
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From Vision to Viewed
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban doesn't need no stinking "windows"
In case you just woke and haven't yet heard of Mark Cuban, let us introduce you. He’s the maverick owner of 2929 Entertainment and (eerily) the Dallas Mavericks, along with Landmark Theaters, HDNet Films and chunks of Warner Bros. and Lions Gate. He also owns arthouse distributor Magnolia Pictures, TV library holding company Rysher Entertainment and lots of other nifty stuff. Cuban is without a doubt one of the most fortunate of a new breed of techno-savvy American dreamers, and he's helping change the way we view movies.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Have the guts and the confidence to reach deeper.
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The Power of Emotional Resonance
Gerald Di Pego wants viewers to lend their hearts to his films
by Cindy J. Rinaldi
With over 30 credits in film and television, screenwriter Gerald Di Pego's filmography includes The Forgotten, Phenomenon, Instinct and Message in a Bottle. This down-to-earth master of storytelling spoke with MM about his sources of inspiration, themes in his work and his key to success as a writer.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
If you want something fast, ask for it on an apple box. You can get an apple box faster than anything else on a set, maybe faster than anything anywhere in the world.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
If you can't tell your story to a stranger and entertain them, something's wrong.
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Appetite for Self-Destruction
David Duchovny writes and directs House of D
We first noticed David Duchovny's sardonic tone, quick wit and immense talent back in 1993 with a then little-known sci-fi show called The X Files. Now, Duchovny puts his extensive resume to work with House of D, his debut film as a writer-director.
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The Eight-Year Itch
50 First Dates scribe George Wing on finding success
In 1994, in only our fourth issue, MM spoke with a young man in
Seattle who spent his days as a legal assistant and his nights as a screenwriter.
A decade later, George Wing is living the life that he then
only dreamed of—with a hit film in theaters and a host of opportunities
ahead of him. Along the way, he’s learned a number of valuable lessons about
what it takes to navigate the Hollywood waters—all of which he’s happy
to share with MM readers.
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HD EXPO’s Kristin Petrovich on the future of high definition
The Powerful Influence of HD, a "Freedom Tool"
At only three and half years old, the HD EXPO organization certainly seems to have come along at the right time--finding immediate success with their inaugural 2001 event. But HD EXPO founder Kristin Petrovich and her team knew that in order to truly make a difference, education needed to be part of their plan--and so the HD EXPO Workshops were born. Here, Petrovich discusses the birth of HD EXPO's workshop component and why it's important to separate high definition myth from fact.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Work with people you like. Working with other creative people in a good environment will inspire you and allow you to do better work. It is much more rewarding to work with people you like on a small project and have fun than to work on a bigger film without enjoyment.
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Things I’ve Learned as an Editor
Top editors sound off on what it takes to make it in the cutting room
This month's Editing "Best Of" includes
thoughts and quotes from some of our most acclaimed editor
interviews: Steve Rosenblum (The Last Samurai),
Tom McArdle (The Station Agent), Jeff Betancourt
(The United States of Leland), Kristina Boden (Auto
Focus), Stephen Mack (Assassination Tango),
Martin Walsh (Chicago), Thelma Schoonmaker (Gangs
of New York), Carol Littleton (E.T.), Jeffrey
Ford (Shattered Glass), Dody Dorn (Memento),
Tim Squyres (Hulk), Mary Sweeney (Mulholland
Drive) and Anne Coates (Lawrence of Arabia)
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One Man Show
DP-turned-director Robert Brinkmann celebrates Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party
With his new film, Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party, finding success on the festival circuit, DP-turned-director Robert Brinkmann proves that it doesn’t take a huge budget—or even a high-concept idea—to connect with audiences.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
When you're doing something for the first time, go in with a real concrete plan and take the time before you jump in there and start filming to map out what it is you want to do and why. So that whenever anyone asks you-whether it's an actor or a producer or a cameraman-'why are we putting the camera here' or something else, you always have an answer.
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